Power Platform Tech Lead

Location: NY or Alpharetta – Hybrid

Role Overview

Critical dual-mandate role serving as the primary technical authority on Microsoft Power Platform supporting E360 Performance Improvement. Bridges business and technology, owns end-to-end technical architecture, governs build quality, and assesses E360 platform performance issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to own the end-to-end technical architecture for Power Apps/Power Automate solution design, RBAC model, and downstream export design.
• Conduct structured assessments of E360 platform performance across Power Apps, Power Automate, identifying bottlenecks, latency patterns, and scalability constraints.
• Analyze application telemetry, data load characteristics, API call volumes, and workflow execution logs to diagnose root causes of performance degradation.
• Produce documented performance findings with prioritized, actionable remediation recommendations mapped to impact and delivery effort.
• Act as technical counterpart to Morgan Stanley''s E360 Tech Lead ensuring solution alignment to firm architecture, security, and governance standards.
• Collaborate with Morgan Stanley''s internal SME team to align optimization work with the E360 platform roadmap and upcoming enhancement priorities.
• Translate BA- and Data BA-authored requirements into detailed technical specifications, component designs, and integration contracts.
• Guide and govern Power Platform Developers and QA Engineers through build, test, and deployment phases; serve as primary technical escalation point.
• Own the technical delivery plan, sprint-level task breakdown, cross-team dependency management, and design/code review governance.
• Maintain solution design records, integration specifications, data mapping, and deployment runbooks to ensure long-term supportability.

Skills & Experience Required

• 10+ years of enterprise technology delivery experience, with 3+ years in a technical lead role on Microsoft Power Platform.
• Deep expertise in Power Apps (model-driven + canvas), Power Automate, and Dataverse integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and remediate performance issues in Power Platform applications.
• Experience with API integration architecture in enterprise HR data environments (Apigee, REST, DDP-style distribution patterns).
• Background delivering complex, multi-workstream HR or enterprise workflow systems with compliance, audit, and entitlement requirements.
• Strong technical communication: able to bridge business stakeholders, HR SMEs, and developers; produce clear architecture documentation.
• Agile/Scrum delivery experience in outcome-based, fixed-fee engagement structures with phase gates.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience on workforce reduction, compensation, or talent management platforms in financial services or similarly regulated industries.
• Power BI development experience for operational and compliance reporting dashboards (adverse impact, headcount impact).
• Experience with Java-based API services and DDP-style data distribution architectures.
• Working knowledge of Snowflake.